Dhikr famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.
-- Hamza Yusuf

#Dhikr #People #Remembrance
The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud) dhikr so that his heart be illumined; and there is the one whose heart has been illumined and he does (silent) dhikr.
-- Ibn Ata Allah

#Heart #Light #Dhikr
Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder (al-dhikr) all things, and He created the heavens and the earth.
-- Ibn Ata Allah

#Dhikr #Water #Heaven
Khashyah (fear) is to fear Allah until His fear comes between you and your sins - that is true khashyah. And Dhikr (remembrance) is to obey Allah so whoever obeys Him has indeed remembered Him, and whoever does not obey Him is not a dhakir - even if he makes abundant tasbih (glorification) and recites much of Qur'an.
-- Ibn Sirin

#Dhikr #Remembrance #Doe
Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water
-- Ibn Taymiyyah

#Taken #Heart #Dhikr
Had our hearts been pure, we would never tire with the Dhikr of Allaah.
-- Uthman ibn Affan

#Heart #Dhikr #Tire
Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Dhikr #Cleaning
Sometimes I was too tired, other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening - no signs from God, no enlightenment, nothing. But that wasn't the point, the Shaykh explained. What mattered was the inner connection with God, which builds slowly and only transforms us gradually. Another obstacle, however, was that I often found it hard to concentrate during the dhikr.
-- Kristiane Backer

#Tired #Dhikr #Lazy

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Trade your secrets and become who you are.
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When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey. It was a larger story using hockey as a window into the story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, with friendships and betrayals, paranoia and oppression, and the meaning of sports to people and nations around the world, and how sports was used as a political tool.
Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
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When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.
If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.